Making Do and Hanging On: Growing Up in Apple Country Through the Great Depression
by Bruce Foxworthy

Summary

No place in America escaped the impacts of the Great Depression, from 1929 to 1939. Even the quiet, orchard-filled Entiat Valley of the author's boyhood suffered its cruel effects. Making Do and Hanging On--Growing Up in Apple Country Through the Great Depression, presents the author's recollections during those mean years--memories of local conditions and events, and of his family's coping with seemingly endless setbacks in its struggles upward. These memoirs, sometimes stark, sometimes poignant, sometimes touched with humor, call up thought-provoking parallels to modern events.

Bruce L. Foxworthy has authored or coauthored nine earlier books dealing with the environment and water-resources management. The best known, Volcanic Eruptions of 1980 at Mount St. Helen's - The First 100 Days, written with fellow geologist Mary Hill, won worldwide acclaim. His writings resulted from work as an earth scientist overseas in Austria, France, and Saudi Arabia, as well as assignments in New York and throughout the Pacific Northwest. He now lives in East Wenatchee, WA with his high-school sweetheart and their camping gear.

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